Selbstkonfiguration in der Automation

Industrie 4.0 and its international equivalent Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS) describe a new generation of production systems, which are characterized by the properties of efficiency, adaptivity and ergonomics [1]. Adaptive production systems adapt quickly and easily to new requirements, e.g. new products. For this purpose, information systems must become adaptive in addition to aspects of mechanical and electrical adaptivity. However, today's information systems used in industrial production are characterized by a high effort of manual configuration (engineering). In the future, self-configuration technologies will therefore be the basis for adaptive production systems.
Configuration tasks can be found on different hierarchical levels of production and automation and at different points in the life cycle: From the configuration of individual (field-) devices and their networking, to the programming of mechatronic units and production modules, to factory control and production resource planning across production sites, issues of self-configuration arise. This article provides a classification (taxonomy) of the configuration tasks or self-configuration issues and describes solution approaches for reducing the engineering effort based on project examples.